This "bill" will cost each household $1000-$5000 in just electricity. This does not even go into gas or the inflation of companies and farmers who use electricity and gas. This actually steps into your household and car over what? Something every human being exhales, every animal exhales and what all plants need to complete photosynthesis. How is this not an intrusion into your way of life, more of than anything else ever done? This is going to happen to everyone now unless you let your senators know.
The only EU countries who fall into their goals of cutting CO2 output in Europe are countries that shut their factories down A LOT because they can not afford to keep them open year round.
You can't use the excuse " Well we already had $4.20 gas without this bill." , because there is nothing in this bill to stop gas companies from going to $4.20 and what would happen if it went that high is instead of just being $4.20 a gallon it will be between $4.90 to $6.35 under this bill. Add $2500 for the "extra" cost to electricity you are easily talking about $3000 extra per year and we get nothing out of it except MORE dependent on foreign oil and FOREIGN made gas. WHY? because the government would tax the refineries and the domesticated oil companies so much that it will close them down..losing jobs and driving up fuel costs. This does not even get into what it does to the building codes. Lets say you live in Ohio and you bought a house 3 years ago. You look towards selling it in the near future because your wife or live-in girl friend is pregnant and you need a larger house. Under this bill you would have to bring your house up to California building standards before you can sell it. Not only does the the home owner eat those costs but they most also pay for an inspector to test to see if the house meets EPA standards for energy consumption. Do you think average American families can afford $2000-$4000 a year extra for no improvement in anything? What about how bad this will KILL the already destroyed housing market? Im sure every seller can afford $10,000+ to bring their home up to code in a crappy market.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif